Public ceremonies, lavish processions, and temporary wooden arches were commonplace after victory in Ancient Rome. But during ...

One of the world’s finest private collections of Greco-Roman antiquities is owned by the Torlonias, a wealthy Italian family. It features 622 sculptures, including sarcophagi, statues of deities and ...

A young man was lying in his bed when a viciously hot cloud of ash swept down from the erupting Mount Vesuvius and turned his ...

or "first citizen," of Rome in 27 B.C. and gave him the honorific name Augustus Caesar. Like their new emperor, Elon Musk and the other tech moguls see democratic politics as little more than a ...

Noonans offered the Sapcote hoard in a recent auction, in which all of the coins were purchased by a U.S.-based buyer for ...

The Domus Aurea, or Golden House, was the sprawling palace of the Roman emperor Nero. Archaeologists recently uncovered a ...

Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by ...

The Library of Pantainos in Roman Athens had perhaps the earliest known inscription in the world which laid out rules for the ...